dial. Also 7 wippin, 8 whipping, 9 w(h)ippon, whippence. [Origin obscure.] = WHIPPLETREE2. Also whippintree.
1697. in Sussex Archæol. Collect., VI. 195. One wagon Ready to Runn … Six yoakes … Five wippins.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 72. The plough-beam, sprinter, whippings, and traces must often break when they come against a great stone.
1778. [W. Marshall], Minutes Agric., 29 July 1775. I … intend that he … shall attend to the spread-bats and whippins. Ibid., 26 Dec. 1775. 7 Iron trace whippins, 2 Setts of hempen trace ditto.
1811. T. Davis, Agric. Wilts, 263. Whippence, viz. the weigh-beam and bodkins, the fore carringe of a plough, as also of the harrow and drag.
1855. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XVI. I. 113. They [sc. horses drawing a plough] should be worked abreast (the attachment being by means of ‘wippons’).
1884. West Sussex Gaz., 25 Sept. 10 sets of drag and small harrows, whippons and traces.
1919. R. P. Chope, Some Old Farm Implements, 13. The modern harrows are made entirely of iron, and the parts are not hinged together, but to a wooden cross-beam which is connected to the whippintree.
